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Marco Chaudry
It was about brotherhood, standing by each others side against those who are inevitably corrupt, not too mention it shows how outlaws become the real heroes, when they are merely just selling alcohol at a normal status, and then they are brutally stopped by a corrupt lawman. The entire story is turned on itself, where the lawman becomes something more like The Joker. I think this movie is misunderstood, mainly because it's based on a true story from a novel written by one of the real Bondurant Brothers.
Sep 4 - 06:03 PM
Cole Jaeger
Thats like what 50% of movies are about. It's not an advanced theme at all. The storytelling is basic.
Sep 5 - 01:11 PM
Christopher Brockhan
hard for it to be a new or advanced "theme" when its from a book written by someone who lives almost 100 years ago. We know those themes very well, but its still a good movie. No one is looking for anything new from a movie set during Prohibiton, but there's good acting and an entertaining story so what's the issue?
Sep 5 - 08:25 PM
Marco Chaudry
That's what I'm wondering too. Just look at how well Public Enemies made it in 2009, this film's got a magnificent cast, top notch acting, and a somewhat basic yet good story line that would add up to being a great buy not utterly fantastic movie in it's own way. This is probably one of the first movies that I've agreed with Richard Roeper's opinion on.
Sep 9 - 06:48 PM
Faizan Khan
So dumb. "Advanced theme"... Hahahah.
Sep 12 - 12:49 PM
Benjamin Blade
Are you just going through the negative reviews of this movie one-by-one and disputing them?
Dude, some people didn't like it. Get a life.
Sep 7 - 10:59 PM
Marco Chaudry
No reason if liking it cause it's violent I guess, these single quotes don't really make any sense to be honest -_-
Sep 9 - 06:50 PM
Jack Heslop
Just because you can't understand these quotes doesn't make them wrong. I liked Lawless, but it is flawed. There are too many characters, meaning that some like Floyd Banner go nowhere, and Tom Hardy's character was too glorified. As stupid and oppressive as prohibition was, Franklin Bondurant in this film is a greedy, violent criminal who talks in pretentious soundbites. Like I said though, I did like Lawless. It was a compelling and well-told story with an incredible performance from Guy Pearce, in my opinion.
Sep 30 - 08:52 PM